The Sun. — London, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

-SE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) ME. House sat to-day, to hear English appeal& Tl.e Peers present v:ere •hhe Lord Chancellor, Earl Spencer, Lord Littleton, and the Bishop of RI Teford. n this appeal, V. rOVIAIIN. mete resumed arguments i which were commenced a few days ago, resumed to-day. The case came before their Lordships upon ap- Peal :from two decisions of the Court of Exchequer, one directing the Part riershiP account of Toulmin and Copland to be taken, and ordering a reference .nto the to the Master, to inquire whether Abraham Toulmin brought 73,. tk partne:-ship 40,0004, and the other allowing exceptions, taken ti; "e.resPondtmt to the Master's report, and referring it back to d h . im Lev i r, his r eport. The facts of the case may thus be state Previous to th e n the business e year 1806, Richard and Abraham Toulmin carried o h n , that year the Ct*,' Navy.agents in Surrey-street, in the Strand. entitledthe, v+ was dissolved, and Abraham Toulmin became to (.4 ' cry on the business upon his own account. Upon that occasio n P artn agree etoi n A de, 47 ,ham Toulmin applied to the appellant to join him as a irrying on the business of a navy agent, which the appellant o, end o n th e formation of the partnership it was agreed be the fi r „ tween th e .n that they sh ou ld carry on the business of navy agents, under j thrat 1 ~ of Toulmin I, Copland, , n from hit t o h e t Ist he neofv seaprttenmerbsehrii) 1806, and 40,0001. Zr grahamdebts, due Toulmintoh'e °old. partnership, for the purpose p of providing the lebts to that amount due from the old concern, and of preserving 4n3fee i .enhntesctifonths of the old Arm to the new, w hi c h was not to be liable to fit lit i, o parmership. t was further agreed that the new of • 1,,0 u1d receive the usual commission for transacting the business t i l, the old firm., and that the appellant should bring into 1 k ,,,, new partnership 4 000/. in cash. These conditions being "mied on both sides, Abraham , Toulmin was to be entitled to two ghirds of the profits, and subject to the same proportion of the losses Altai mi h tthi. , g tbe made, and the appellant was to have the remaining otnes zre,...._"•'• This arrangement was to go on for five years, when the par ie e 2-18 to become equal partners, but in case Abraham Toulmin did not in the 40,0004, then the partnership was to be carried on upon `lual terms, from the Ist of Sept. 1806. The new partnership was 'coMteitticcd •,, , but th e agreement for its formation was never reduced t itni° Wrti ng. The ap pe ll ant paid into the partnership his 4,0001., but h e 1 480 7, it was discovered that Abraham Toulmin could not bring in , -0,0004 good debts he had agreed to do, and, therefore the par ...e rship Was carried on as had been agreed, equally between both . from In 11 September, 1806, down to the death of Abraham Toulmin tx h 9 . In that year the respondents filed their bill in the Court of c equer, asserting that the appellant was not entitled to the half of the Profits fr 41..„_a ern 1806, and p ray i ng for an account of the dealings and Lord ctto ns of th e partnership. Upon the case coming on before the '4" Ch ief 'Baron of the Exchequer the accounts of the partnership wer e directed and a reference was made to the Master to enquire whe. ttiis re erthe 4 h .o,oo'o/. had been paid i n t o t h e partnership. The Master made nershi , repo.`[ 0 ,0001. findin g th at the 40,000/. had not been paid into the part c hier E t • To that report th e respondents took exceptions, which the aron allowed. From those two judgments tile present appeals were brought. '44.• /CNIGIIT BRUCE concluded his address to-day on behalf of the aPPeilan t. Mr. wArcEptn en followed ps Lordshi wwe when left . on same THE MAR KETS-(TH IS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE. Ive l ek l 7 , r j e are tolerably good arrivals of Wheat, Barley, and Flour this , e . t ! t very Moderate of Oats. The Millers, since Monday, caveve b eel r :) lnineline d to purchase Wheat, and the prices of that day ha re ardly maintained. Barley, Beans, and Peas remain as last - Loorttc_ et. Oats fully fair sale for support the terms last quoted, with a t 41Ualities. The Flour trade has this week been dull at last prices. ARRIVALS. FFlour. r•o Rut h I ' Vh Qat. Barley. O a ts. h ... ......... 5,9.10 . 3390 qrs , °rt il . ... . ................ qrs 4,960 qrs. 1,710 --. 530 I 6,110 tacks. I 1 ----. -- 930 SMITHFIELD. Th e chief demand today was for Lamb and Veal, both of which ad fine or kill ~.g. l e on M onday's prices —saying that the we a ther has b ecome te er . og, the re was but a short supply of Cattle at to-day's market. 4 try rid Mutton underwent no variation, but were dull of sale :—Beef, 6,. 4.0 s • ; Mutton, 3s. Bd. to 4s. Bd. ; Veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 6d. ; Lamb, 4 53 t° 8' 4d.' Pork , 4 s. to ss. Beasts, 812 ; Sheep, 8,071 ; Pips, C alves, 200. Th e b, PROVISION MARKET. is no "sint'ss here is rigidly confined to bare consumption; but there cit u , lurthQ'.: reduction in prices than what we have previously noticed int thiy Week. F ish 'BILLINGSGATE MARKET. to ~;° day were again plentiful and cheap. Trade lively. Cod, Is. 1 . " al nlon, Is. 3ct. to Is. 6d. per lb. for good ; Turbot, t2s. and 3s. to good ;".evb; Lobsters, Is. 6d. to 4s. each ; Soles, 9d. to 3s. per pair for lackarel, V ihiting, and Haddock, cheap. P y TALLO W MA RKET. C. 48s oil the spot, and 45s for delivery; but very little passing. En This 0 METAL MARKE el),:rtment continues very fiat, and prices remain stationary. , Cop,l'lg Iron 9/ . i s.; Bar 111. ss. ; English Lead '2ll. 103. ; Sheet 11 d per lb. ; Cake 91/. ; Spelter 171. 10s. Ir t y SEED AND HOP MARKET. th e3r Joth these ' w ere the b eg inn in commodities but little passi ng , an d p r i ces th e same as Th e g of the week. COLONIAL MARKETS, qUantity of goods now put up to public sale is about equal . to . the t ut 'Pd, and the consequence is, that prices remain without variat . ion. k a , L th e Public sales and the demand are slender; we have a very little a e l3p t. To-daywe had public sales of 5,000 bags Mauriti us S ugar, sks new Barbado es , 5 b arre l s o f Jamaica Coffee, 24_10 bales of Mocha V ,.:;`e , ', and 10 b a r re l s o f G i nger. Sugar fetched much about previous rates, th e tr,porters do not seem disposed to give way. Coffee went much as ( , - .'" ) re, /Jut the parcels are too small to form any criterion for the markets. Coe rce shows a tendency t o d ec li ne. Mice is steady, at 14s, for good Bengal. t nominal and uncert a i n as to price, Spices generally are flat, and y, - , set '. lower prices must he taken. For immediate con s u m pti on h ue s_ :3 is doing in Tea at sale prices, Rum is declinin g i n price, and the qat ions are uncertain ; w h at i s sold are small forced parcels. Mo -71,14`s ar e qu i et, but rot lower. Refined Sugar, owing to the scarcity of rass a Ps not to pass the standard, is about th e same pr i ce for those that So for those th at do not, viz., 755. ; fine crushed 345. British Plan t,ii" , Sells s teadily, and when we left the market the following were the est, 545. ; and middling 58s. no fine in the market. The h a,i " , 'u done in the Colonial Market for this week has been small. We p re , ; , , , 23 5 hags of Saltpetre at public sale to-day, which went at about previous prices. lli ------ LIVER POOL COTTON MARKET, MaY 10. I,rieeseftransactions , nour Cotton Market of to-day have been firm, and and '° -3e n 4II Y Main '..ained. Exporters have tak en a b out 200 American, few 7 e been taken on Speculation ; about 5,000 bales at the t 44 l;;;; i ed Y.ota la ti v ons :-70 Pernam, 90.; 80 Mara ham, 81,d. 60 an, eld 12id. ; 450 Surat, 46d. sld. ; 4,340 American, sp. 7d. ...t . . 'tat -',,000. ...,........, li Ct 7, 7 POOR-LAWS FOR IRELAND. TO MY CONSTITUENTS. feeling in gene. , 'Finding that your wishes and opinions, as well as the . ZI. throughout Ireland (added to which are those sentim t e h n e ts p l oo ly . s a e: have always entertained on the subject), were opposed to . I a jil t in its present sliape, with a view, if possible, of . defeating the me a_ ' 4O , I gave noti',:e of my intention, on the third reading, it b e _ of moving that last eread that day six months. The discussion . came on accordingly ~,,,,„, p ight, it in favour of that Bill. But ania the result was a large majority g h y Members, who know little or „„ - t ° ,, r a. po , ..ed that majority ti o „ . ",%ig of our country, and m l a . . i n 'e y, E l nhs indiffe ' rent to our situa vot,, there was a large majority of Irish, believ e, hiefly county Members, 4) 1 .' 1 : in favour of the amendment, and which would have been tan:di,'rablY increased, but for the absence ?f s o w t n h e ers of in th l e reland ; Irish 1k1e,,,,:te I cannot but regret the part which bu t t!,t, took on the occasion, I am sure . conscientiously, bu t not borne out or fortified by any petition or the ex- Was s ' ,,_ tin the part of their constituents in favour of Bill. It • Nogi z Z i en irlg tohear the pompousness with which this Bill was Part, r by some members of the Administration, on its farewell de- Past , e NM our House, as if it was to be the termination of all our Peri l °it ; and the commencement of a new era of hap . pin h ess . and pros. a, e 3 i f at our country. Could not the Government, in t . ie t ir o w ,o i y sd p o r m o. , fes s t :, e ll ' a l : , ecl . any other means for the attainment of the object la ss ? m e in v iew, namely, that of the amelioration of the state of 1re ....i0 ight not they have found out, among t e mouldy records of 111 4;_nigr.4treetv Rune half-fledged document, takenup at the moment almost in its i n i aric 't of liberal feelings towards us, but abandoned , t) f o - glan Y , on. reflection that it might interfere with the interests h M ores ~ d ' If an impartial witness should hereafter visit ou a r u nt ; ' foreigner for instance, and contemplate the anomalyof viz., ,Y covered, on the one hand, with those badges of poverty, boq i , cibe workhouses, inmated by a large portion of her e a i l.: l t e . - a: ecie PeoPle, and, on the other, those numerous fine un l b i e i ' s,,tracts, such fit objects for their employment, might not to:::"' tat P° is this the boasted legislation of England %e x . rds th at PortMo of mir and would he not be furthr war vv.ork*arranted ill saying that the hand that works well for England, reef, tr ie . h adlY for Ireland ? No, we shall be visited by this wretched 3 .h _ Must they if the Rouse of Lords dent come to our rescue, whic thi l s l ast they „i ll till , _ I do, and show, by the total rejection or alteration of I ,_ ..nat they are determined in this instance to do justice to Ireland. ti7twwer, should this Bill become the law of the land, I should . hope t itl'ltate_e,eshall lend as little as possible our cooperation in carrying lett er • t, and that it may remain, like many of its pi edecessors, a dead it tpin' iai:ttehs archives of Dublin Castle. And this I feel conscious of, ( 1 3. 2:4,,ttt: when that period, which perhaps is slowly progressing at this m ien we shall feel the necessity of taking upon ourselves theme. ge:ment of our own affairs. I remain your ever obliged and faithful humble servant, N. WM. JOHN BRABAZO totictin, Ist May, 1838. s ‘-'ITENT:GARD E ____............_.--....,-- N, Mitchell, THEATRE.—Mr• rtighlelmand, takes his benefit at this Theatre to-morrow (Saturday) his t As this 1 . ' A s gent eman is well known and deservedly respected for 4° Ubt th attentions to all the visitors at Covent-Garden, we have no racist sariat the patronage of the public on this occasion . will answer is 4re Of th"the eXPOOtatiolls. The entertainments which he announces .. 411 1 , 0 e attractive character, full of variety, and comprising st the entirem.m strength of the establishment. lett c u A ILS 0 N RAILWAYS.—The report of the Se pr,e2lstnihtee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the Se and c " ,. ' , ate of railway c ommunication, so far as it affects the regularity blshed toßetu'2l. enience of the transmission of letters, has just beei i i , pi e i i ?tons aegre‘vith the minutes of evidence taken before them. they h resolu: consider t 11a,,,, _ e _d m te by the Committee are, in substance, that teau64,Jcuo panics have it in their power practically toprevent the due bp ou tke i n of . the correspondence of the country, as as to impose it i a ex% piblic whatever terms they think fit for its conve ance • that tor e re l u'ent that the Legislature shoted forthwith take y steps to t em Daili es Ma titY and speed at a reasonable remuneration to the it i,, i that in the present imperfect state of railway communica . tiou do t t.l!edient to attempt to affix any specific rate of remuueratio l n , duwllesat it behoves the Legislature, at the earliest ossible period, to blest Mea ns ~ 1 1' , 0 fixed and general principles on this point; that as the be tor,rneuni Meeting the present difficulties of the case, the Committee re railway 4 that a 33111 be forthwith submitted to Parliament to compel ?ton, h C°,llpanies duly to perform all such services as may be required or sp e er fi by the Post master -General, whether by means am Iraq trains, the amount of remuneration being settled byarbitrators sh„,kilY, that it appears to the Committee expedient that a power ra ilwa... e iveri to the Post.office to run their own engines upon any , without the payment of toll. Intelli ver Lloyd's of a Mee was received yesterday at onfit act performed by Captain Curzon, of the Savage . brig of war, le)aarrtgoolf„ hiins:lafatna,nider, who, by ettraordinary personal exertion on tn.. his crew, succeeded in saving a valuable ship a n d th e ree and abandoned near to that port. Captain Curzon was ii hi, meaner for several hours, assisting in and directing the operations of dtprey,h ba fn ee_t:ue praise. is thus . or vessel, the Lady of the Isles, was insured for 9,0001., and P stant a t re t Cfrom becoming a total loss. The underwriters are to reward these exertions with something more sub_ it W as thThe exploit is one of so remarkable a nature that 241 ult. e theme of conversation all over the room. It occurred on the AN Nis, ' 'l . llr-T A X.- --- I t was stated in the report of the ownow Council to .ill tl proceedings on Tuesday on this subject, that . : i f , . teas agreed I„._ tin ap, ,, t,,,,cr b 5 per cent. between them ,p.their trouble, that derstand the acual resolution come to by the Town Counci was, t hey should havers per cent. each.—Edinburgh Advertiser. - HER MAJESTY'S BALL. The first state ball given by her Majesty, tinCe her accession took plate last evening, at Buckingham Palace, and was a magnificent fete. The preparations for the entertainment were of the most extensive des cription. A temporary orchestra for Strauss's waltz band was fitted up on the south side of the ball.room, the regular orchestra affording accom modation for only eighteen musicians, and at the cast end a platform, covered with crimson cloth, was raised across the entire width, for the reception of her Majesty and the members of her royal family. The front of the two orchestras, the second being filled by Weippert's qua drille band, were hung with similar draperies, with magnificent gold fringe. The company began setting down shortly before ten, and the arrivals continued without intermission for more than an hour and a half. At a quarter-past ten her Majesty entered the first Ball Room, Weippert's band striking up upon the Queen's entrance " God save the Queen." Her Majesty was received by the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Gloucester, and other Royal relatives. About twenty minutes afterwards her Majesty, attended by the Lord Chamberlain and the Members of the Royal Household, proceeded through the suite of rooms, receiving the homage of the numerous and distinguished guests, which her Majesty acknowledged with her customary grace and affability. Her Majesty opened the ball, and honoured his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge with her hand in the first set of quad rilles, the music of which was from Le Domino Noir. Her Majesty danced with infinite grace and animation. Her Majesty subsequently proceeded to the north drawing-room, where the Queen's own quadrille band, under the direction of Mr. Weippert, were stationed in the orchestra, and performed in admirable style the Royal Serenade Quad rilles. Her Majesty danced this set of quadrilles with Viscount Jocelyn, the eldest son of the Earl of Roden, who was attired in the uniform of the Rifle Brigade. Most of the company appeared in splendid military or naval uniforms, and the Ladies in rich Court costumes. HER MAJESTY was attired in a magnificent white satin slip, over which was a silver lama tunic, trimmed with siver white blonde lace ; an agraiffe on either side with maiden blush roses, studded in the centre with brilliants. Her Majesty wore on her left arm the insignia of the Order of the Garter, also the star in brilliants, and the ribbon of the Order. Head dress of roses (maiden blush), the centre formed of brilliants, and a small bandalette confined the whole; diamond drop earrings. About one o'clock supper was served in the banqueting room. On each side of this elegant apartment extended a range of tables, set out with every delicacy and rarity that could be procured. The ornamen tal confectionary In the centre of the tables displayed great ingenuity, and was most admirably executed. The appearance of this room when the distinguished party were seated, was splendid in the extreme. The circle, which comprised the Members of the Royal Family, the Foreign Ambassadors, the Ministers and their Ladies, and 400 of the leading nobility, seemed to include all that was most lovely and brilliant in the land. We speak more especially of the ladies, who have never, perhaps, at any previous first ball, been outnumbered or outshone. Their dresses, remarkable for their richness and elegance, were all new for the occasion. The eye of taste could never tire of following the graceful waving of feathers, and the lustre of countless diamonds. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was absent on account of suffering from an attack of the gout. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Queen yesterday, at the New Palace. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Majesty. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge yesterday, at Cambridge House. The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cambridge dined with the Duke of Wellington on Wednesday, at Apsley House. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards went to the Concert of Ancient Music. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton (late Governor of Ceylon) arrived in town on Wednesday. Sir Robert had an interview with Lord Glenelg yester day, at the Colonial-office. A deputation, consisting of the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Sir William Rae, Mr. R. Steuart, M.P., and Mr. John Spottiswoode, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing street. Lord Talbot of Malahide had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street. Sir Bethel Codrington, Mr. Martyn, and Mr. Brown, a deputation on West India affairs, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, Don Manuel de Aguilar, the Spanish Minister, and Prince Michael Soutzo, the Grecian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Hon. Mr., Mrs., and Miss Tollemache, in Half Moon-street, from Huntsmolc ; Dr. Rucco, Licentiate of the College of Physicians, Lon don, at Pagliano's Hotel, Leicester-square, from the Continent; Lady Botham, at Berner's Hotel, Berner's.street, from Brighton ; J. Scratton, Esq., Mrs. Scratton, and family, at ditto, from Southend; Osgood Han. bury, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Oldfield Grange, Essex ; J. Whitley, Esq , at ditto, from Liverpool ; Capt. Purvis, at ditto, from ditto; the Marchioness of Carmarthen, in Bond-street, from Brighton; the Countess of Pembroke, and Lady Georgiana Herbert, in Grafton-street, from their seat, Wilton House, Wilts; Lord George Beresford, in Charles-street, from Ireland; Viscount Bolingbroke, from St. John's, I)evon ; the Earl of Westmoreland, and Lady Georgiana Fane, in Grosvenor_ square, from Brighton ; Viscount and Viscountcs Gage, from their seat, Fide-place, Lewes, Sussex ; the Earl and Countess of Grosvenor, in Grosvenor-square, from their seat, Motcombe House, Shaftesbury ; Lord Skelmersdale, in Portland-place, from his seat, Lathom House, near Ormskirk, Lancashire ; Sir Frede rick Bathurst, at Mivart's Hotel, Brook-street, from his seat, Cla. rendon Park, Wiltshire; the Earl of Liverpool, at Fife House, White hall, from his seat in Sussex; the Earl and Countess of Bradford, in Park-lane, from their seat, Weston Hall, Shiffnall, Staffordshire ; the Earl of'Stradbroke, in Jermyn-staeet, from Lancashire; Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, at Grosvenor House, from their seat, Eaton Hall, Cheshire ; Lady Isabella Blachford, from her seat, Os. bourne House, Cowes, Isle of Wight; the Earl and Countess of Man vers, in Portman-square, from their seat, Thoresby Park, near 011erton, Nottinghamshire; Lord Petre, in Mansfield-street, from his seat, Thorndon Hall, Essex ; Lord and Lady Nugent, in Chandos.street, from Oxfordshire; Sir Richard and Lady Bulkeley, from Leamington Spa; Lord and Lady Kinnaird, in Burlington-street, from their seat, Rossie Priory, Perthshire; the Earl and Countess of Cork, in Hamil ton-place, from their seat, Marston House, near Frome ; Lady Douglass, from Scotland; the Dowager Countess of Craven, and Lady Louisa Cra ven, in Charles-street, from their seat Hampstead Park; Lady Augusta Fox, from Leamington Spa; Lady Tottenham, from a Continental tour; Lord and Lady Hatherton, in Grosvenor place, from a tour on the Continent; the Countess of Bridgewater, in Grosvenor-square, from her scat Ashridge, near Hemel Hempstead, Herts. DEPARTURES. The Dowager Countess of Mu!grave, and Lady Sophia Phipps, from Grosvenor-place, for their seat, Brookman.park, Herts ; Lady Mac kenzie, from Clarges.street, for Brighton ; Sir J. and Lady Doyle, for Bognor, Sussex; Mrs. Cullam, from the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, for the Continent; C. Grant, Esq., and Mrs. Grant, from ditto, for Tholey Priory, Essex ; the Rev. R. Moore; Mrs. Moore, and family, from ditto, for Bedford; the Rev. G. W. Phillips, and Mrs. Phillips, from do., for Windy, Cambridge. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 10.—A congregation was this day holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred:— Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity by Accumulation—Rev. Mr. Moles_ worth, of Trinity College, Grand Compounder. Doctor of Medicine—Mr. Dyer, of Worcester College. Masters of Arts—Wm. Phelps, of Oriel College, (Grand Compoun. der) ; Thos. Allen, Balliol do ; Charles Raymond Barker, Wadham do.; Rev. J. M. Talmage, Christ Church. Bachelors of Arts—Sir Robert Brownrigge, Bart., of Christ Church ; Walter M. Cosser, Trinity College; H. Downing, ditto; Charles B. Cooper, Wadhain ditto; A. A. Tyndale, ditto : S. B. Arnott, St. John's ditto ; G. S. Berkeley, Queen's ditto : Thomas Crossfield, ditto ; J. H. Dart, Exeter ditto ; E. E. Estcourt, ditto; .Tolin Round, Balliol ditto; F. Stonehouse, Oriel ditto; C. N. Bolton, St. Edmund-hall; James Mar ryat, New-inn-hall. The Regius Professor of Divinity is delivering a private course of lectures on the Epistle to the Galatians, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at nine o'clock, and will give his public course in act term, to commence the 7th of June, at 12 o'clock. The Rev. J. B. Ottley, late Fellow of Oriel College, has been insti tuted to the Vicarage of Farnborough, Warwickshire, and to the Per petual Curacy of Radstone, Northamptonshire, Wm. Holbeck, Esq., Patron. The President and Fellows of St. John's College have presented tho Rev. Gcorge Adams, Fellow of their College, to the Rectory of East Farndon, Northamptonshire. The Rev. Thomas W. Goodlake, Scholar of Pembroke College, on the Tesdale Foundation, has been elected a Fellow on the same Foundation. A course of Lectures on comparative anatomy commenced on the 7th, at the Anatomy School, and will be continued on Mondays, Wed. ne,days, and Fridays, at two oVock. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Last night we witnessed the performance of Sheridan Knowles' play, The Wife, at this theatre. On this occasion Miss Elphinstone appeared in the character of the Wife. We remarked, when this lady first ap peared here, that her talents were fitted more for tragedy than comedy —her success in The Hunchback and in The Wife have fully justified our anticipations. Her performance of the Mantuan Princess was marked throughout by the finest feelings and descrimination ; it presented an admirable portraiture of unsuspecting, artless, innocence, and the enduring confidence of woman's love, expressed with combined power and delicacy—and not unfre quently with a strength, and truth of passion, which produced a great effect. Still, the play did not go off with eclat—the reason of which, we fear, is to be traced to the very mediocre, or worse than me diocre, character of the performers, by whom Miss Elphinstone was supported. Mr. Jones's St. Pierre was but respectable. Mr. Glover's Duke not much better. Of one performance, however, we must speak in terms of sincere approbation—it was that of the Confessor, by Mr, Knowles himself, who, by the true, natural feeling which he infused into the part, drew down frequent and well-merited applause. The Duchess of Somerset intends giving a series of fetes in Wimbledon Park, upon the same scale of tasteful splendour that used to distinguish those fetes champetres annually provided by the Duke of Somerset's daughters, the Ladies St. Maur. The first will take place in the course of the ensuing month. All the dinner parties which were to have been given by Conservative Members of Parliament to-morrow have been post poned, owing to the grand Parliament banquet to be given to Sir Robert Peel, at the Merchant Tailor's Hall, to-morrow evening. Lord John Russell, as Secretary of State for the Home Department, will give a grand official banquet on Thursday next, to a party of thirty-six, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. The dinner takes place at an hotel, his Lordship's House in Wilton-crescent being too small to receive the number of persons usually invited on this occasion. - the Duke of Cambridge has consented to become patron of the West London Literary and Scientific Institution, at the request of the Committee, conveyed to him th roug h hi s R o yal High. ness's domestic Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Glasse. The marriage of the Marquis de Carman, son of the General of Artillery, who died after the expedition to Constantina, with Mlle. Louise de Crillon, daughter of the Duke de Crillon, was celebrated on Tuesday at the Church of St. Thomas d'Aquin. Lord Suffield has become the purchaser of the Lamb ton hounds for the sum of 3,000 guineas, and his Lordship intends to transfer that excellent pack to Leicestershire. Sir Matthew W. Ridley offered 2,5001. for them. The Literary Fund Club dined on Wednesday at the Freemasons' Tavern, to meet the Stewards of the ensuing anniver sary. Mr. Charles Dickens was in the Chair, and was supported by a numerous party. It was rumoured that the Noble President, the Marquis of Lansdowne, would take the chair at the festival, and that he would be supported by a number of Noble, political, and literary friends amongst the latter the name of Mr. Thomas Moore was par. ticularly mentioned. The usual meeting of the Glee Club took place on Saturday last at the Crown aiid Anchor Tavern. John Cupel, Esq., the President. in the chair, when Mr. J. 0. Atkins was awarded tiv prize of ten guineas for the best glee for fi,e voices, commencing " Sweet, sweet Harmony," the numbers being 21 to Jo. 1 1 111. 4 STJN, LONDON, PPLIDAY, iktilt ii, 188 a (From the Morning Papers of this day.) 9 Ein 6 % i ii 45 04 8) 1 1 / 2 7 ii 7 i ... 40 London and Brighton London and Blackwall London and Southampton 5O ... 50 ... London Grand Junction Manchester and Birmingham Northern and Eastern ... ......... North Midland lOO ... 35 Thames v o e r n t h u i r i e d g l i a s n t d e re d . . . . —5O ::•• 21121°5 11 ... 12 A ustralian . ... 100 ... 27 1 / 2 ... D As it p t h o a n ltt r , i , ti C sh laridge's Patent... Ditto United States 2010 ... 21 ... 1 2 4 ;1 21 Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen Dittp London Ditto Robinson 2O —. 3 . 31h14 Ditto Polonceau British North American Bank 5O ... 20 ... 23 1 / 2 Colonial Bank London and Westminster Bank London Joint Stock Bank ... Mexican and South American lO ... 5 ... 64 6 National Loan Fund Provincial Bank of Ireland, New . 10 ... 10 ... 164 MONEY and COMMERCIAL MARKET MORNING HERALD.—The Money Market presents no particular cause for remark, especially as regards commercial affairs. In the English Stock Market the business has been very limited, but the quotations of this afternoon indicate fully as much firmness, if not more, than they exhibited yesterday. Consols have touched 943, but left off at 94A a 1 for money and the account of the 29th of this month. The heavier securities have also improved, the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities being now quoted at 101 A a 4,-, after reaching 1013 ; and the Nl w Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1021 a ; Bank Stock is 2051 money, and India 2711 money and time. Tho premium upon Exche quer Bills has barely maintained yesterday's rates ; the prices are 61 a 73. India Bonds marked are 81 a 83 prem., and those not marked 5 premium. The business in the Foreign Market has been very limited, but the quotations have scarcely varied from the last prices of yesterday. Spa nish Bonds, with the May Coupons, continue at 201.a1, and Deferred at 83 al. Portuguese New Five per Cents. closed rather heavily, at 331 a 34; and the Three per Cents. ditto at 224 a 23. Belgian ' Bonds are 1011. Columbian 271. Danish 74k. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 543 to ~%; and the Old Fives 1001. United States Bank Shares are 25 aA. There has not been so much disposition for speed],. tion in the Share Market to-day, and some strong efforts were made to hang the market for the different Asphalte projects, chiefly, it is said, en the ground that the members of the house are dissatisfied with the Ire e in which the shares of some of the Companies have been dis tributed, and the impression that ,the directors have been reserving shares for their own purposes. Whether this is true or not, a great many shares have been sent from Liverpool today for sale, and it had the effect of reducing the value of the different concerns, without reference to their comparative merits, but the market left off firmer than it was during the early portion of the day. Claridge's Pa tent Asphalte closed at 12 premium ; British at 1 11 premium ; Liver. pool at I premium : United States at 13 premium; Bastenne at If pre mium; Robinson's at M premium, and Polonceau at 1 a 1 premium. In Banking Shares, British North American are 3} premium ; London and Westminster, 1 premium; Colonial are 21 a 3 premium; London Joint Stock are ae premium; and Provincial Bank of Ireland New Shares, 61 premium. British Iron Company's Shares are 38 discount; Grand Junction are 5 premium; London and Brighton, a premium ; Blackwall, l premium; and Southami ton, 5 dis. The prospectus of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society leas created a good deal of interest amongst not only our monetary and commercial circles, but also that class of political economists who do not fall in with Malthusian doctrines; inasmuch as it is calculated to create a powerful stimulus for providence in the middle classes of society, par ticularly those who have no income but that derived from their own per sonal exertions. The advantage of this institution over most of the benefit societies is, that a person may commence with a shilling per week, or 21. 12s. per annum, and secure an annuity, or a given sum, ac cording to the age at which he commences, at the age of 50, 60, 65, or so on in proportion ; or, should misfortune overtake, a desire to settle a child in business, or any other motive, the insurer has the option, at any time, of withdrawing two-thirds of the payments on deposit of the life policy; and should he not survive, two-thirds of those payments will be returned to his representatives. We have made these remarks here, be. cause the project has created much attention, and because everything that induces provident motives amongst that numerous class who have no other capital than their labour is more calculated to promote the per manent prosperity of the whole community than all the new-fangled theories of the modern school of political economists. SHARES. Share. Paid. Price. Brazilian St. John Del Rey Mining 20 ... 9 ... British Iron Eastern Counties Railway ...... 25 ... 5 ... 4 Great Western CONCERT OF ANCIENT MUSIC. These concerts still appear to be in the zenith of fashion amongst • the nobility and the higher orders of the bean monde. The room last • night, at the fifth of the present season, was even more crowded than we ever remember to have seen it, and Ilanover-square and • some of the adjacent streets were so thronged with carriages as, to make it a matter of some risk for a foot passenger to attempt to cross from one side the way to the other. The aristocratic leaven moreover seemed to prevail on this occasion, and on this occasion in its utmost pu. rity, for on the words " Coach uuhired," being bawled out at the close • of the concert by some unlucky Wight, whose master has not, we pre_ ' sumo, attained the indispensable luxury of keeping his " own carriage," the rest of the liveried assemblage in attendance outside were perfectly struck aghast, and in angry tones ordered the hackneyman, who with more zeal than sound discretion attempted to drive up to his fare, to " be off." A valiant policeman, anxious for distinction, rushed up and seized the horses heads, and in a twinkling the" mercenary" was no longer to be found contaminating the vicinage by his presence. His Grace the Duke of Wellington was the Director for the evening, and amongst the Noble Visitors we observed their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Prince George of Cambridge, his Grace the Archbishop of York, Lord Burghersh, &c. &c. For the first time in our re_ membrance, although several Members of the Royal Family were present, there was no guard of honour at the doors. Whether these military distinctions are about happily to be done away—whether the omission arose from so many troops being absent in Canada--or whether a mere principle of economy dictated the omission, are questions we must leave to be answered by those who are in the secret, which we ad_ mit is not our case at present. Gluck's noble overture to Iphigenia, a work evidently in advance of the times in which that composer lived, opened the concert, and we need scarcely say, with the " means and ap_ pliances" possessed by the orchestra of the ancient, went well. Mrs. Seguin sang " Deh I se placer," from Mozart's Clemenza di Tito, very charmingly, and would have sung it still better had she divested herself of a certain air of timidity, which marred her best efforts. " Come I (Mime! " from the Nina of Paisiello, Is not exactly the best selected piece for a concert room, as a good deal depends upon the acting when heard in its proper place ; still it was admirably sung by Mrs. Bishop, Mrs. Seguin, and Messrs. Braham and Phillips. Mrs. Bishop in particular distinguished herself by the exquisite feeling imparted to her share of the composition. The fine chorus from Joseph, " 0 God ! who in thy heavenly hand," was superbly sung. "Here in cool grot," the very pretty glee of Lord Mornington (the father of the Duke of Wel lington) was introduced on this occasion ; whether selected by the Duke himself, the Director of the evening, or placed in the programme as a not very appropriate complimeat to his Grace, by his brother Directors, is another question for the initiated, which we are unable to solve. There was nothing parti9ular in the singing of the glee on this occasion—no more than in the duet of Nasolini, " II tuo destino," by Mrs. Alfred Shaw and Mr. Braham. Arne's " Hymn of Eve," " Howcheer fol along the Gay Mead," by Mrs. Knyvett, possessed no peculiar merit to enable it to stand prominently forth amongst the mass of compositions of the evening ; and Mozart's terzetto," Soave sia it vento," by Mrs. Bi shop, Mrs. Shaw, and Mr. Phillips, although very fine and sung well a dull and. heavy affair. The chorus " Glory to God," from, Joshua, went well throughout and was peculiarly effective. In the " Se cond Act," which commenced with Winter's " Zaira," Mrs. Sha 1: sang " Lord Remember Me in My Trouble" with great purity and chasteness of style, and her splendid voice told forth most effectively; but ac complished and gifted as this lady undoubtedly is, a little more ani mation and spirit would not be amiss. The voice of the veteran Braham is certainly not what it was ; still there is no man in exist. cure at the present day wh o can s i ng " D eeper and deeper still, " and ‘` Bishop'sW aft her, "From An ge Mighty, ' ' as heKi Kings," wasl e was x, e a l l superbe nt. m r. Phillips performance. the rs sang M recitative and air," My Prayer s ar e H ear d , " an d " Tears such as Fa ther's Shed," in his very best s tyl e, b u t a t t h e l ate period of its introduc tion it was tedious. The concert concluded with " The Lord Shall Reign," from Israel in Egypt. The solo parts were well sustained by Mrs. Bishop and Mr. Braham, and the chorusses, with all the others in the selection, were sung with great point and firmness. The concert as a whole was rather a dull one, and the insufferable heat of the room calls upon the Noble Directors, trumpet tongued, to lose no time in adopt- ing some efficient means of ventilation. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. The Derby betting continues unfavourable for book-makers, the field having greatly diminished in number, while, to make matters worse, very little money is sent in to support the few horses left in the market. The business transacted yesterday may be described in a few words. Grey Momus was backed at 4to 1, in hundreds in one part of the room, and at 36 to 10 in another, the closing offers averaging 7 to 2. Phoenix's price .was equally indefinite. We saw 6 to 1 taken in one quarter, and 7 to 1 directly after in an other ;we must, therefore, av erage him at 13 to 2. Cobham, without being backed, remained at the closing price of Monday. Young Rowton stood at 11 to 1, or takers of 12, till nearly half past six ; the 12 was then laid, and followed up by two or three other bets at a point more ; at the same time 1,000 to 400 was betted that Phwnix beat him. lon as on Monday, and Nonplus three points worse. We did not sec an ythi ng d one a b ou t D'Egville or Bullion, nor did two or three fifties at 20 to 1 make any altera tion in Beggarman. The Early Bird suffered a fearful decline; 30 to 1 was laid, and notwithstanding only 25 to 1 was offered after wards, there can be no doubt that had there been any more backers the same odds might have been obtained. Albemarle, another of Scott's lot, came into the market, several offers having been made to take 40 to 1. We have quoted him at 30 to las the outside price, but cannot pledge ourselves to their being the exact odds. The Oaks show no change worth notice, nor was speculation in it a whit brisker than on the Derby. A long dull afternoon closed as follows : THE DERBY. 7 to 2 agst Lord G. Bentinek's Grey Momus—take 4 to 1 13 to 2 agst Lord Jersey's Phoenix—take 7 to 1 9 to 1 agst Mr. H. Coombes's Cobham—take 10 to 1 13 to 1 agst Mr. Bland's Young Rowton—taken 14 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Armitage's Nonplus colt—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Beggarman—taken and aft. offd. 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinek's D'Egville—taken 22 to 1 agst Captain Berkeley's Bullion—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Early Bird—taffen 30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Albemarle—offered 30 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Conservator—taken 35 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Bretby—taken 35 to 1 agst Sir J. Mills's Volunteer—taken 40 to I agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe—offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Worrall's Dormouse—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Monc Adam—offered 50 to 1 agst 11Ir. Ford's Quo Minus—offered 70 to 1 agst Mr. A. Smith's Cracker—offered 1000 to 400 on Phoenix agst Young Rowton 300 even between Drum-Major and Conservator 500 even on D'Egville agst Early Bird—taken THE OAKS. 6 to I agst Mr. Batson's Vespertilio—take 7 to I 6 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Barcarolle—take 7 to 1 8 to I agst Mr. E. Peel's Ninny—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Brown Duchess—taken 10 to 1 agst Lord Suffield's Calliste--taken 12 to 1 agt Lord Exeter's Romania—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's The Fairy Queen—taken Offers to take '2O to I agst Lord Chesterfield's Industry DERBY SPRING RACES, MONDA Y. The Cavalry Stakes, with 20 sovs. added, for horses bona fide the property of the Members of the Derby and Chaddesden Hus sars, Mile and a half heats, were won in two heats by Mr. E. Ather_ stone's b. h. Hajji Baba, aged, 10st. 71b., beating Mr. Collinson na. ch. m. Dolly, 6 yrs, 1 . 15t. , _71b., and two others. The Hurdle Stakes, with 20 sovs. added, for any horse that has been regularly hunted with Mr. Meynell's •r the Marquis of Hast ings's hounds this season, Heats, a mile and a half, were won in two he .ts by Mr. W. Denham's b. g. Lord Abbott, aged, 1 Ist. 71b., beating Mr. W. Statham's b. g. The Painter, 6 yrs, 1 Ist. 71b ; Mr. Colville's b. g. Grasshopper, 6 yrs, 1 Ist. 71b, and two others. The Hack Stakes, with 15 sovs. added, Heats, as above, were won in three heats by Mr. Kirk na. b. m. Dowager, aged, lOst. 71b., beating Mr. Hodgson's br. g. Brilliant, aged, lOst. 71b., and seven others. Match, once round.—Mr. Calladine's Pet beat Mr. Kirby's Lottery. Pony Race.—Mr. Mason's Jim Crow beat Mr. Slater's Nonplus easily. Epsom races commence on Tuesday, the 29th instant. The Derby Stakes will this year, and in future, be run for on the Wed nesday (instead of Thursday as before), and the Oaks on Friday, as usual. WOODSTOCK ELECTION. WOODSTOCK, MAY 10.—The contest has been most keen during the whole day, and it was quite a matter of uncertainty for a long period which candidate would be returned. At 2 o'clock Lord John Churchill headed his brother by two votes; but from that time until the final closing of the poll he did not, we believe, obtain another vote, while seven more votes were polled for the Marquis of Blandford. These last votes came in very slowly, as nearly all the strength of the constituency was exhausted. The official declaration of the poll is postponed till to-morrow ; but the following statement of the numbers at the close of the poll was made at the Marquis of Blandford's Committee-room : The Marquis of Blandford l6O Lord J. Churchill Majority for the Marquis of Blandford -5 NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE.—It is confidently re ported in the City that the preliminary steps to rebuilding the Royal Exchange have been taken. For some time parties have been making outside surveys of the buildings in the immediate neighbourhood of the site of the late Royal Exchange, and it is said that the Mercers' Com pany are to advance 150,0001. for the building; and Government :200,000/. for the approaches. The buildings to be taken down to the westward will include the site of the Bank Coffee House, in Bank street, Sweeting's Rents, and all the buildings eastward, including the west side of Freeman's-court in Cornhill, and Threadneedle-street, op posite the North and South American Coffee House, leaving the church and churchyard of St. Bennett's Fink, which is to be enclosed with an open railing. In the list of Members of the House of Commons who will be present at the banquet to be given on Saturday to Sir Ro bert Peel, two changes have occurred since its publication in our paper. The names of Sir George Clerk and Mr. Waddington arc added, a nd those of Col. Chaplin and Mr. Forbes expunged .— Post. Mr. Wakley in enumerating the miseries of several modern authors omitted, of course through forgetfulness, the fate of the Lancet. Some years ago several cart.loads of the Lancet were sold at the large sum of one penny per volume. The purchaser was a gentle man in Mr. Tegg's line in Alders gate - street.—lllorning Post. PEN VERSUS LANCET. The bold Member for Finsbury states That Tegg's made of "squeezable" stun', And buys books, though at very low rates, When the public have had quantum stiff: But there wasn't heard nam'd in his speech A work seen on many a stall, For though Wakley's a mighty great Leech, His old Lancets won't bleed folks AT ALL. May 10, 1838. —Morning Post. D. D. THE POLICE.--One proof of the utility of this force was furnished on Wednesday by the restoration:of property to a con siderable amount, that but for the police must have been . irrecoverably lost. Shortly before ten o'clock, Wednesday morning, as a gentleman named Hewlings, of the firm Stewart, Hewlings, and Co., discount brokers, was riding through TothilLstreet, he lost his pocket book. At eleven o'clock, Barefoot, Inspector of the B division, brought back, to 9, George-yard, Lornbard-street, the pocket book with all its contents, h &c., absolutely b e f ore the owner himself was aware of h i s o a It appears that a poor w oman named Sarah Reid, who lives at cl lNl ss r s . : Paul's in York.street, picked up out of the road the pocket book, and that some Irishmen seeing this, surrounded her, with the intent to possess themselves of the booty. The poor woman, however, suc ceeded in retaining the pocket book until, by her cries, the police came to her assistrnce, who marched off the ruffians to the sation-house. Mr. Crawford has addressed another long letter to Mr. O'Connell, professedly in reply to the latter gentleman's address to the Protestants of the Established Church of Ireland. NATIONAL LOAN FUND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 38, Harrison-street, Gray's Inn road, May 11, 1838. SIR,—In looking over the columns of your Paper, of Wednesday last, my attention was drawn to the Advertisement of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. This advertisement, and your editorial remarks thereon, I read with the deepest attention and most heartfelt interest. It were vain in me to attempt to add to the force of your ob servations upon this subject; but I beg you will give a place to a few re marks from one of a class whose interest is very nearly and deeply con cerned in the matter. Among the better-informed and thinking portion of the industrious and productive class (of which body I am an humble member) the want of some General or National Association for the purpose of yielding Cie benefits held out by the National Loan Fund, has been long and grievously felt. All other existing Benefit Societies and Asso. ciations were too limited in their range, or the payments re. quired as entitling to benefit Were too great to render Vicin easily available by the Working Man. In reading the prospectus of the new sheme, I felt as if a heavy load had been removed from my n - And. The end which it proposes to realize had long been a subject of serious and painful thought to me, and in resolving to avail myself of its advantages, I felt relieved from an anixety which too many have long and heavily exy erienced. Viewed in any light, the scheme is to be re commended. Here is a plan, where, by the easy exercise of a little foresight and economy, an honest and secure independence may be reaped by every industrious person, who has the good sense, and proper regard for duty, to avail themselves of it. Nor are we alone to look at the direct pecuniary benefit conferred. Those who have expe rienced the gloomy and dark forebodings of want—whose heart and bead alike have ached when calculating how the great and important ends of independence and security for the "sunset of life" were to be attained with the small means which Providence had placed at their disposal, will best know how to estimate the blessing which spares them so many harassing and oppressive thoughts. The habits of regularity, which a connect ion with such institutions induces, and above all, the freedom fro m crushing and corroding care, the elasticity of spirit, the buoyan t ho p e, the independence of mind which man feels when a ssured that his struggle will not be fruitless, will do more to advance the imp rovement of the working classes, both morall y ,a,tr)dgpehnyersaiclaleld education, etahtaina, hinywmecahnsb short of a sound and practicable system as yet been devised. There is no want of energy amon g working men generally. It has been seen how strenuously they have struggled to carry through their iq'neilde of trades' combinations, and how readily they subscribed funds for the forwarding of their objects These have been condemned by many, as exceedingly questionable, if not injurious in their tendency. But here is an object where the benefit is undeniable, and the end un objectionable. And lam confid en t i n saying, that the support which toy fellow-workmen will give to it, will be such as to convince all who hold themselves in a superior station, that the working men of this country, have many proud and redeeming qualities, that their errors and crimes are not so much the result of their natural feelings as they are of the system under which they have hitherto lived. Let all unite their efforts to place this truly national object before them in its true colours and important bearings. Its results will be a national, aye, a universal benefit—a good which will cheer the heart of every well-wisher tp his kind. To none will it give more genuine pleasure than to, Sir, yours, very respectfully, A WORKING MAN. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, M A T 10. — Win d N.E a n d c le ar , blowing strong throu g h out the day C a me down from the River and proceeded, the Alonz o , Hi c k , for Quebec. PLYMOUTIT, I NIA Y 9.—Wind E.—Arrived off, the Odin, G ov i n, from Vosdizza. Sailed, her Majesty's ship Andromaehe, for Quebec. MAY 10.—Wind E. Fine.—Sailed, the PoRTSI4OOT II , President, Chadwick, for New York; Thomas Green, Buchan, for Miramiclii ; Minerva, Ireland, for Madras. MAY 9.—Wind E. Moderate breezes and fine • FAL:got/Tit, —Arrived, the Paul, \Webster, from Rouen; Ann Margaretta, Wright, from Longs sound, Sailed, the Venus, Pedersen, for Copenhagen. MAY 10.—Wind SE. Fresh, fine weather. A • L IVERP OOL, rrived, the Emerald, from Alexandria; Exile, from Palermo. Sailed, the Elvis, Simpson, f or Calcutta ; Amanda, for Pernambuco ; S evern, for New York; Canada and Euphrates, for Canton; Dulcinea, for Havan na!) ; Trio, for Boston; Joanna, for St. Petersburgh. CREEK, MAY 10.— Arrived, the Europe, from Smyrna. PeNzANce, MAY 9.—Arrived off, the Duke of Bedford, Bowen, from Calcutta; sa ted from the Cape of Good Hope, March 2, an d S t. Helena, march 14. PooLr, MAY 10.—Arrived the Victor, Sandberg, from Stralsund. 11, the Brothers, Veal, bound to Newfoundland, in going out struck upon the Bar, knocked off her rudder, and sustained other damage, and must put back to discharge. ScILLY, MAY B,—Arrived off port, the Johanna, —, f ro m Orleans. HULL, MAY 1 0.—Arrived the Vyf Gesusters, Ruge, from Kiel; Anna Louisa, Peterson, from ditto; Wilhelm, Gottschalk, from Stettin; An drews, Voss, from ditto ; Delaval, Fowles, from Hamburg ; Vine, Batty, from ditto ; Four Gebruders, Huffen, from Stralsund. S" VINGB R, APRIL 20.—The Anna Maria, Kleining, from Amster dam, was brought into Egersund the 12th inst., dismasted. A bark loaded with battons and spars, and abandoned, was driven on shore on the Ledder on the 14th ult. No papers are found that indi cate either name or home of this vessel. c onsider the p r opriety of petitioning Pa rliament for an .ITEN-Ho F ACTORY BILL.—On Wednesday evening last, a p u b lic meeting of the Inhabitants o f Oldham was to have been held, to consider efficient Ten ..lours' . .ours' Fact ory Bill . The placard convening the meeting stated, that €‘ if. no They consequent) legislative check was applie d to the factor y p ro _ prietors, they would never cease their encroachmen t s until their work people dropped down dead through absolute fat i g ue! " At the time appointed for th e pr O ceedings to commence, a b o ut fifty or sixty work. 'nen were in att endance. The intended lea d ers of the business of the evening,consisting of a factory operative name d Wild, a youth named Quarmby, who is a schoolmaster and an obscure pe rson of the name of Brooks, consider e d the audience too tr i f li ng to merit speeches, and corn plained very m uch , of the apathy Y adjourned the meeting to Thurs da y evenin g , in ex _ of the men of Ol dham to their ri g hts. pectation of gai n i ng a better attendance; b u t this expedient was unsuc cessful, for at th at time the auditory was extrem ely small, and there were no proceedings. The cause of the Ten-hours' Bill seems, there. fore, entirely a b andoned by a considerable num b er o f the working popu tatian of Oldham. —~ M anchester Guardian. The Earl of Fitzwilliam's birth-day, on Friday last, occasioned great re j o i cings at Milton, Peterborough, and Wen t w orth House, Yorkshi re. The Noble Earl completed h i s 52.3 year. There are in London and its immediate environs the almost incredible number of 667 Licensed Victuallers' houses having only ten different names or signs . They are as fellow : — Q ueen's Head, 46 ho uses ; the George, 52 ; Coach and Horses, 56 ; the S hi p , 64 ; White H art, 67, the Grapes 69 ; King's Head, 70 ; t he Crown, 71 ; Red Li on, 82; and King's ' Arms, 90. THE ' CRors.____lii several counties the young wheats are just appearing above their parent earth. They are back ward, of course ; but we are happy to see that in a vast majority of cases they are of a right healthy colour and appearance, and already pro mise well. The Countess of Essex is said to have made a libe ral settlement on her two nieces, lately performing at Mr. Braham's theatre, on condition of their quitting the stage. NEGRO APPRENTICESHIP. (Front the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday.) PUBLIC MEETING. - _ A very numerous and highly respectable meeting was held last night at the Rotunda, for the purpose of advocating the Entire eman cipation of the negroes in the West India colonies, and the abolition of negro apprenticeship. The Chair was taken at seven o'clock by Dr. ORPEN. P _ ...„ The CHAIRMAN having explained the object of the meeting, which was, principally to hear the celebrated George Thomgson, the distin guished advocate of negro emanCipati - m, said that before that talented individual should come forward, it was necessary that some preliminary statements should be made, and some other advocates of the same cause should address the meeting. Mr. WEBB moved the first resolution. He was anxious to impress on the meeting the necessity which called them together on the preset occasion—for it was only by stirring up the people, and creating that excitement and interest which the question should in reality merit for itself; and which, if they attended to the details that they would hear on that evening, would certainly be produced—it was only by such means that they might have reason to hope thai the Government would listen to them, and would be willing to yield to the united and fervent voice of the nation. Hence, considering the interest created at the present moment, and as the further consideration of the question in Parliament had been postponed to the 22d instant, the importance of agitating it in the meantime, and impressing on the Legislature the sentimentsof the people, must appear obvious to all. Mr. G. DOWNES seconded the resolution. The subject of it was the more interesting, as it referred to the wretched Hill coolies, who were at the present moment crossing the ocean from Calcutta to Demerara, and whose bodies were thrown to feed the sharks of the Indian ocean, as those of the hunted negroes were to feed the sharks or the Atlantic—the trackless deep being thus, as it were, converted from one extremity of the earth to another into a vast slaughter house for human beings. Mr. Downes read some extracts from documents describing the brutal treat. ment given to those poor people in the embankments, and on the voyage, in Olsen violation of the provisions of Acts of Parliament, which would seem to be but a dead letter for the monsters who act in that manner. He also referred to the conduct of some slave owners, whose names he saw in the Parliamentary debates, and who were quoted as authorities --one of them in particular, a man who was known to torture his female slaves by burning their eyes with cayenne pepper—a man at whose name the white man as well as the negro should recoil with horror. '1 he resolution was then put from the Chair and carried unanimously. Counsellor GAYER, in rising to propose the next resolution, said that he had entered that meetingwith the intention of being a listener, and not a speaker. He had come to hear the celebrated and talented George Thompson, but being called on to say a few words, and feeling strongly himself on the subject, he thought' himself bound to give ex pression to his sentiments. It was useless at the present day to make ally case to prove to the world that the country had been miserably taken in by the so-called Negro Emancipation Act. That Act was a complete delusion--a humbug upon the nation. He had been reading it that day, and he was more than ever convinced that it was a mere deception—a most insufficient and delusive measure. Lord Glenelg himself was obliged to acknowledge the truth and justice of the arguments which were put forward by the Anti slavery Society, for, whichever of their propositions be considered, or whichever of the acts of injustice inflicted on the negro apprentices, complained of by them, be taken into account, the truth of their ar guments were asserted by that very Act of Parliament to which he re ferred. The resolution which he had to move referred to the shameful conduct of the Irish Members when the question of the negro apprentices was lately beforethe House—shameful, when contrasted with that of the Irish Members on a former occasion, when they voted, to a man, with Mr. Wilberforce, on his motion for the abolition of slavery. They had neglected their duty on the last occasion, and It now became the duty of their constituencies throughout the country to call boldly on them to do justice to the negro, and blot out the foul stain on the national character which their late conduct had inflicted.—(Cheers.) Mr. Gayer sat clown on moving the second resolution, as follows : " That, believing as we do, that had the Irish Members faithfully re presented the feelings of their country, the abolition of slavery would have been carried; and, seeing the lamentable defalcation amongst them on the late division, when, out of 105, 29 only voted for liberty-41 against it, whilst 34 were absent—contrasted also as it is with the noble conduct of the Irish representatives, who, on a former occasion, voted to a man with Wilberforce for the abolition of the slave trade, we cannot but feel it as an incumbent duty not only to exert our own personal in fluence, but also to call on every friend of justice and humanity to do all in his power, by personal application, and by getting up addresses from the respective constituencies of our members, to have this foul stain blotted out from the annals of our country." Mr. THOMPSON then came forward, and was received with enthusias tic cheers, which continued for some minutes. When order and silence were restored, he said—Mr. Chairman, citizens of Dublin, men and women of Ireland, we are met here tonight under novel and unprece dented circumstances. We were accustomed to meet aforetimes, for th a purpose of enlightening the minds—ofinforming the understandings —of enlisting the moral energies of the country with us. That work has been done. The deepest and holiest emotions of the human heart in the three united kingdoms have been stirred tip on the question of negro emancipation. We are not, then, met to-night to gather up in support of that sacred cause the sympathies and the moral energies of the people, nor to petition their repre sentatives in Parliament—nor to make known their wishes and desires at the foot of the throne,--•all that had been done, and well clone. The Parliament has been petitioned again and again, and Eng land's maiden Queen has been told by the voices of six hundred and ninety thousand of her subjects, that she can do nothing better to found her reign in righteousness, and to merit the gratitude of the present, and of future generations, than to spread freedom wherever her sceptre extends—over distant continents and the islands of the sea.—(Loud cheers.) Tonight we are not met to convert the country, but the Ca binet; we are not met to convert the people of England, but the hearts of the representatives of the country. The nation's heart has been turned to justice—the nation has heard the voice of justice, and has been moved to the very centre on this righteous question.—(Cheering.) They have persecuted them with a severity equal to the oppressors in the land of Egypt—they have oppressed the noor negro, and took from him his labour without giving bins any thing fur it. It may be neces sary to l eview rapidly but distinctly the history of the great movement in favour of the negroes for the last five years—a movement which not only convinced Parliament that slavery should be abolished, but the Government also. I should not, perhaps, have Said so much of the Parliament, for they were willing at any time to abolish it did the Government consent to it, and I must certainly say that the part taken by the latter appears to me to be most mysterious. When an opportunity was for the first time offered (tie people of this great Empire to send representatives to a reformed House of Commons —when the franchise was extended to two millions of freemen who never exercised it before, the test at the elections was one which was considered to be of paramount importance—one an answer to which no ambiguous reply would be taken—namely, if we send you to Parlia ment will you vote for the immediate, entire, unconditional, and ever lasting extinction of British colonial slavery ?—(Loud cheers.) Shortly after a Minister of the Crown, then tilling the office of Colonial Secre tary, in introducing the miscalled Slavery Abolition Bill, said " the nation has spoken in a voice which no Minister can mleunder. stand, and Ptherefore have come down to propose a measure for the immediate annihilation of negro slavery."—(Cheers.) That Act was passed, and although I will not now enter into its merits, permit me to say it was not that which we expected,—it was not the Bill of the country, although, with a generosity never equalled, they paid twenty millions of money for it.—(Cheers.) I cannot help saying that that Act was disgraced by the introduction of clauses re. lative to the apprenticeship system for six years, thereby giving the planter their labour, which is their capital, without any remuneration whatever.—(Loud cries of " Hear !") On the 23d of August, 1833, that Act was passed, the Legislature solemnly assuring the nation that, on the Ist of August, 1834, slavery should be abolished in her Majesty's plantations. The evils, alas! which were prognosticated were, in a short time after, more than realised. During the first six months in which the great experiment was being tried, letter after letter, des. patch after despatch, official communications bore testimony to the wretched condition of the negro, although his liberty had been pur chased at so dear a rate. When twelve months had passed, the evidence of this state of things became so accumulated, that Mr. Buxton brought the matter before the House of Commons ; but he was not attended to; he was told to wait patiently, that the Act had nit as yet been its full operation—that in a little time the different Houses of Assembly, the Magistrates and Governors would do their duty, and all would yet go well. Eighteen months had elapsed, and no change took place, when Mr. Buxton again brought forward his motion for au inquiry into the subject. He was again opposed by the Government, who said to him, wait a little while and we will inquire into the matter, promising if any abuse existed they should instantly be remedied. Seven months - again passed away without the promise given being fulfilled, and Mr. Buxton for the third time, brought the subject before the Legislature, and, on the 22c1 of March, 1836, a Committee was appointed to inquire into the matter, and whether the humane intentions of those who brought forward the Bill were carried into effect.—(Hear, hear) Sir, what I want to show is, that the Government have no excuse in this matter— that they have not passed those things by without a remedy, through an ignorance of them.—(Hear, hear.) They tell us that the excitement put of doors on this subject is disproportioned to the fact of the case ; and that we are agitating in reference to some solitary cases of cruelty. We tell them that we have over and over again produced the most copious and conclusive evidence for the last four months as to the facts put forward. We tell them further, that those facts are new—that they are not those put forward three years ago; and as to the agitation which they say has been created on the subject, it is well known that when Mr. Buxton's motion, made in July, 1835, failed, the London Anti slavery Society, and the London Society for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the world, drew up a memorial which they sent to Lord Glenelg, carefully sole cted from Parliamentary documents, written by persons in authority, imploring him to do something to improve the condition of the negro—to relieve him from those miseries inflicted upon him by the imperial Act, and which, in many instances, rendered his situation worse than ever it was. All this was done with out a single public meeting being held throughout the country on the subject of anti-slavery.—(Hear.) If there be any inconsistency existing, it is the conduct pursued by the present Government, whose power is based on the feelings of the people—whose whole support rest on the people--(Cheers.)—who were brought into office, and kept there by the people— (Continued cheers)—Kho, when displaced, were brought back again on the shoulders of the people—(Great cheering)—who live by the breath of the people put into their nostrils. Let it cease for a moment, and their power ceases for ever. Sir, the present Government was created by excitement, and continues in office by excitement; that Government, based on popular support, refuses our prayer—and, worse than all, the leader of the House of Commons—the representative of the noble slams of Russell—denies us what we ask—denounces an agitation sanctioned by Heaven itself ; and at once, above the foul and corrupted atmosphere of party politics—(Loud cheers)—we tell the Government that that agitation will arouse the thunder of British inde pendence, and, amid the lightning which illumines our political and moral horizon, threatening destruction to slavery of every description, " the still small voice" of mercy and humanity will not be heard in vain —(Great cheering)—and, itudespite of our Colonial Secretary, who re fuses to do the negro justice, we will obtain it from the eternal God.— (Loud cheers.) We did not, on the occasion to which I have alluded, use those weapons, holy and unconstitutional as they arc.—(Hear.) Our information was gleaned from the dispatches of Governors, and authentic documents. Upon them we founded our application.—They were refused, and from the Home Govern ment we appealed to the universal feeling and omnipotent energy of the British people.—(Great cheering.) Well, Sir, the Commitee went up stairs, and sat at a table like those gentlemen (the reporters) I see before me, but certainly not so usefully or honourably employed. On that Committee there were four representing the West India planters, four the British Government, and four the abolitionists of slavery. Of course the latter were at alt times in a minority, for the Government men voted against them on every occasion, and adhered with snore per tinacity to the abuses or the planters than those who represented them. Sir George Grey, on every occasion, was the bitter and decided opponent of the abolitionists. Mr. Jeremy desired to give evidence relative to the Mauritius, but the Government refused to permit him. He was sent out of the country, and not one sentence of his evi dence was ever heard.—(Loud cries of hear, hear, and cheers.) But, when the Committee published its evidence, what did it amount to? Had we time to go through and analyze it thoroughly, it would be clearly proven that the condition of the negro is very much worse than it was in 1833. This has been most clearly demonstrated to the British people; and, if any person take the trouble to peruse Mr. Jeremy's Analysis, he will at once be satisfied of the truth of what I have stated, and be convinced that the negro suffers more aggregate misery and oppressioa now than before the Imperial Act of 1833. This Committee published their report, and what did it effect ? Nothing for us; everything against us. It did not hold out to us the expectation that we should get one day's freedom previous to 1840. It did not tell us to hope —it bade us despair. Yet, what did we do? Did we agitate the country? Did we excite the feelings of the people, or C 1 d ~,,iLsnent agitation ? sa ; we went calmly to persuade ; quietly investigate and convince. Four g Cstlemen were sent on the hazardous— . the very perilous— s :eity of traversing ,a . tte West India isles and satisfying themselves as to the exisinnee thosehorrf d abuses which were subjects of such loud and genera l complaints. .I:`iese gentlemen did zea. lcusly and efficiently discharge the humane but bat 7"ing duty assigned to them; mid what was the result? A mass of most valuable i n forma tion, furnished by Mr. Sturge, shows the accuracy of the allegations si hich the friends of abolition bad been making use of. Or. Harvey, Mr. ticobe, and Mr. Lloyd, all bore concurrent testimony of 'he fright ful cruelties to which the wretclie.l slaves were subject. All t :`e m,Pi cions we had entertained were more than confirmed—all the emu. 'al ions we had made were fearfully substantiated. The testimony of these ,gen tlemen was forwarded to Downing-street. Whether it had ,'he weight which was due act the evidence of individuals of unble-: mished honour, and of unienpeachable veracity, I am not aware. Whether it was ever read .I do not know; but this I know, that in either case are the Ministry equally guilty—if they did not read it they had the opporaunity, and neglecting it were cri minally guilty.—(Hear, hear.) If Mar die! read it, they have the less excuse for their conduct, and the impediments they have opposed to the emancipation of the negro race.—(Cbes n brougat over with him net.) I now come to coo- ther feature in this scene of horror. Mr. Sturet.' a young men of one name of Williams, who had .been an apprentice in 1834 ; be had been several times et the treadmil, aria the stories related by him were of such a nature, descriptive of so m a tch cruelty and inhumanity, that the simple narrative taken from w him, and pub lished as he stated it, was deemed of such importarece, and bore about it such authentic tokens of reality, that the earl:est copy of the publication was trarismitted to Downing-street. From the circumstances described ill that history it was det..mcd expedient to send a commission out to Jamaica to investigate the allegea.' facts. The report of that Commission anthenticated and confirmed the narrative of Williams. It did more ; it brought to light enormities a thousand times worse than the e represented.—(Loud cries of hear.) In the voluminous evidence embodied in the Report of that Connni sion, it was clearly shown that the case of Williams was not particular, but almost universallrgeneral. These matters produced great excitement in the public mind. A meeting of delegates, one hundred and foray in number, assembled in London, who, with Mr. Sturge, laid a memos jai before her Majesty's Administration, but without success. They did nots get a satisfactory reply. On the contrary that they were told the prayers of their petition could not be granted. It was only then that they ap pealed from the Ministry to the people. The delegates separated disheartened, but determined on perseverance, and in a short time after four hundred delegates again assembled in London. They brought with them petitions from all parts of the country, and among the rest six hundred and forty thousand females sent to the foot of the throne, occupied by a Queen, a petition in behalf of four hundred thousand of their own sex perishing in slaysary.—(Loud cheering.) Exeter Hall was crowded with meetings on meetings, animated by the one universal and glorious spirit of liberty. Oultitudes thrcnged there, anxious to enlist themselves in the cause of humanity and freedom, and to Signalise their determination to oppose a base conti nuance of interested slavery; and there spoke the mighty, matchleasa master.mind, of Lord Brougham, denouncing the injustice ancf illegality of making bondsmen of our fellow-subjects.—(Cheers.) I am glad-1 rejoice that the Divine Being put it in the mind of such a man to become the advocate of the defenceless negro; and the thunder of his eloquence, the power of his intellect and speech, have made him far distinguished in the philanthropic cause in which he has engaged. As to the justice of the cause, and the necessity of the abolition, even on mounds of temporal expediency, remote from metal considerations, the acknowledgment of Lord Glenelg make them obvious and palpable, even tc the imagination of the most sceptical and querulous.— (Cheers.) Mr. Thompson then took a rapid review of the conduct pursued by the Go vernment, and the duplicity which characterised its proteedings in re ference to the Slavery Abolition Bill; he contended that it at least should be an open question, and not a measure against which the Ministry were not identified as to render it imperative on their subor dilates and supporters to vote against Sir George Srickland's motion. Had not such been the case, instead of their (the Abolitionists) being in a minority of 2.17, they would have been in a majority of that number. He commented at great length on this subject, and then referred to time expectations which were held taut that Ireland's Members at least, if others proved recreant, would ba found foremost in freedom's fight. Eighty members were promised—fie et sixty, then sevanty, and finally, eighty, assured votes, were reckoned on from the Emerald Isle. But, alas! in the hour of trial but twenty-nine were found to take the pat t of th a enslaved and oppressed.—(Vehement cries of disapprobation) The decision which by this recreancy had been come to by Parliament he could net but designate as gross an outrage as had ever been in flicted on a Christian country—(Loud cheers)—whica terminated partially in the " Kentish Fire," but the indignation which was gene rally manifested at such an ill-tined exhibition of party feeling at once checked and put down this silly emanation of school.boy folly. The Speaker then proceeded to exhort the constituencies of each Irish Member so to exert themselves in making their sentiments known as • should prevent any misrepresentation of their opinions on a subject in volving so vitally the happiness and morality of the human race. Had they but acted as he was sure the feelings of Irishmen would direct, the fate of the enslaved and vilified negroes would have been altered. Ile was truly surprised that in Ireland this apathy or treachery on the part of the repretentatives should have been tolerated, for he had heard, since his arrival in the country, a trait so creditable to the national character, that it afforded him sincere pleasure to narrate it. When the slave traffic was in vigorous operation amongst the merchants in London and Liverpool, it did hat reach with its Po inted gain to Ireland. A question was, indeed, raised once in Belfast, amongst the commercial men there, but, it having got wind, a public meeting was called to collect the opinions of the inhabitants; many spoke on the subject, of course on the right side, when a very old gen tleman rose and said—" lam not going to make a speech, IS r I don't know now, but this I will just say—may the curse of Heaven light upon the first man in Belfast who ventures to touch this bloody traffic." There was 130 more speaklng—the meeting broke up—not one venturing to urge anything in favour of a measure so emphatically and feelingly denounced. And you, Irishmen, have then the proud satisfaetion to say that not a town or city in your country' has been defiled by conta mination in this unholy trade; it. is for you, ellen, to wipe off the stain which your representatives have cast upon you. Let diem, as in the days of Wilberforce, stand by the friends of suffering humanity, and nut let the genius of the green Isle suffer pollution by apathy, while • freedom is at stake, nor let her fame be tarnished abroasl among the nations of the world.—(Cheers) Mr. Thompson concluded .amid loud applause, upon which the resolution was put and carried amid smthu. siastic approbation. It was not until ten o'clock that the meeting broke up. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Wakley's amendment en the copyright question, in'the House of Commons, on Tuesday night, was introduced by a speech very amusing; singularly mai.i3nant ; but cspcially con tradictory. Its allegations and its facts went to defeat its own purpose. So contradictory was the argu:neot that we should take it for a bad joke, were it nut that its Onllness as a joke would be at variance with the pointed malice o.c the examples brought forward in support of it. The Hon. Gentleman may be safely left, in this particular, to fight his b.•ttle with himself. " Homo ditcrtus," as Cicero said of ArtiAnny, non tantum 710.5C11111 scd secant ipso tote oratione pugnai..." 1k sounds the same cuckoo note in favour of the plunder of authors by the limitation of copyright, as that taken by Sir G. Stephen and the coneoctnrs of the Freemasons Tavern resolutions, to whom we replica yesterday. He is only some what more drastic in the finality ot , his confiscatory . potion. Their plunder is for the benefit of society, forsooth, by the due Haw w: - :uld he like a his laboratory, and supply of mental food to the hungry: body of invalids to made an irruption inter his on the limitation principle? Would herecommend a body 0. , insist on a seizure of his phials for their u."'"lths' benefit-- politely returning him 28 cut of every starving men to break into the bakers' shops, and argue that the. diffu sion of the loaves among them was for the b, nefit of their :0- clay ? Fair play is a jewel. If he contends for the confisca tion of one class of industry, he ought to apply his principle to every other. 13itt the public cannot make extracts from va luable works in future. Certainly; not without paying for them. They cannot en , .:!•ract portions of his estate from the Duke of Northumberland, or any other landholder. It would very convenient and very prop m, according to Mr, Wsklcy's possespis. 'n of this land and di argument, for society to take vide it into shares for the benefit of the plunderers. But avbat is convenient, as Aristides said, is not always 1 t, and we have yet to learn that the perpetual possession of the,: estates by/ the great proprietors causes any injury to society as .regyds: their cultivation or their value. All the malicious prom.: of the little value of literary property furnished by Mr. Wakley amount to nothing. If it be not worth more than a few far things—as we argued yesterday—it is the labourer's property; and no one has any more right to sfealit than to steal Mr. Wakley's physic, which for all we know may be estimated at the same rate. We shall return to the subject ; partly be cause Mr. Wakley's examples of disvaluation of literary works is singularly in concurrence with L''e whole train of our preceding arguments ; partly because Mr. Ni;'.akley, in making this spiteful expose, may be linken to those pruY ei : bi . al birds that betray, their own nest." Mr. Wakley lf mge one of the literary and scientific class. "Et to Brute. " Morning Advertiser. We have always thought Mr. Wakley, M.P., a consider= able blockhead, notwithstanding a certain readiness of talk: which he has, and in which he tries to imitate a vastly cleverer person, to wit, Mr. D. W. Harvey. But we really did not think Mr. Wakley so great a blockhead as he proved himself to be by his speech against the Copyright Extension Bill. The argument of the Hon. 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